Pyrometallurgy: Roasting, Smelting, Refining & Electrowinning

Pyrometallurgy: Roasting, Smelting, Refining & Electrowinning

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Gold pour call - Eluant or Carbon Call (1 reply and 1 comment)

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cmrosso
4 years ago
cmrosso 4 years ago

Good day,

We run a Zadra elution circuit and we usually use a carbon call (using loaded and barren carbon values) to determine what gold bar we might pour. However, we also keep track of our eluant call (using pregnant solution and barren solution values). The two are usually within an acceptable limit of one another, however of late our carbon call has been higher than the eluant call and we are pouring close to what the eluant call gives us. 

Any ideas where we could start looking for errors? we have ruled out laboratory assay errors as the standards are acceptable. Another thing to note is that our pregnant solution values, while stripping, do not indicate that we have the high loadings that our loaded carbon values suggest.

 

 

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Todd H
4 years ago
Todd H 4 years ago

I would start with the statistics.  What size samples are you taking, what are the assay method errors, what are the detection limits, what are the errors in flow and mass measurement?  In most cases I find that the divergence is caused by a poor flow or mass measurement.  Develop a program to look at the sampling - take 3 x the number of samples, conduct assays and look at the variance.  In the meantime check flow and mass measurements.

Regards

 

Todd Harvey - Global Resource Engineering http://www.global-resource-eng.com

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Abena Yeboah
4 years ago

Hello Todd
I am a recent graduate in metallurgist.
Can you kindly thow more light on how poor flow can cause such divergence?

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